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Funding for services may never be a sustainable business model. What we need is appropriate funding for an adequate number of excellent staff who will raise the level of care for all patients.

Reflecting on 15 years of being a pharmacist, which started as a part-time pharmacy cashier making $6.85 per hour five years before that, I have held all these traditional job titles that we find in community pharmacy. This means that through two decades, I have spent most of my time looking up the ladder and now my vantage point has me looking down the ladder for a full-circle picture of the profession and its jobs.

The Governator has some pretty wise life advice for pharmacists—and anyone else, really—about how to turn our dreams into reality and be more effective.

I have had many negative results as a pharmacist, as a manager, and as a leader. But I learned over time (and you will, too) that those negative results showed me how to improve, as long as I 'got the negative.'

People get sick, it happens. But when we see obvious patterns like repeated incidents of staff calling in sick before a weekend or the same employee being sick on a weekly basis, there is some work do to.

Realizing a long-held dream, I’ve launched an international education program to empower pharmacists to utilizing the power of precision medicine and pharmacogenomics—and equally important, how to ensure it is a sustainable business.

The different perspectives we have acquired through our pharmacy careers bring value to the overall care that can be provided. But we must be willing to share the wisdom we have acquired, and more so, we must be willing to listen to the wisdom being shared so that it can produce the best value.

Can’t find the time to step away from the treadmill and re-set your priorities? A mini-retreat might be just the thing. Here’s what to expect if you decide to try one.